My mind is like my web browser.

Nineteen tabs are open.
Three are frozen.
And I have no idea where the music is coming from.

Anxiety and I run together like we are old friends, but it’s all a one-sided friendship.

When this pandemic struck, there came a lot of uncertainty.
For me. For you. For everyone.

What is going to happen?
Will my husband have a job?
Will Global Passion be able to send summer trips?
Can Global Passion outlast this?

Questions, all of them, running through my head over and over and over and over again.

In the silence of just a brief moment, the Lord spoke…

Be still and know…
Trust and obey…

Those two simple statements immediately stopped the chaos in my brain. The anxiety of uncertainty left and I knew beyond any doubt that God was in control and I had nothing to worry about. I will be still waiting upon the Lord. I will know that He is God and in control. I will trust that His Will will be done. I will obey what He is asking me to do.

I can’t believe how simple it was when I just listened to what God was speaking.
But that’s how it always ends up being, right?
Simply God. Simply His peace.

Here we are day 973 into this pandemic (or so it feels) and the circumstances have not changed.

But God has not changed either.

He is constant. My husband has not lost business and continues to work. Support continues to come in for GP. All of our needs are being met and God continues to provide. In 2006, during one of my darkest times, the Lord gave me the scripture Psalm 54:4 “Surely God is my help,  the Lord is the one who sustains me.”

Sustain – strengthen or support physically or mentally.

Wow.
To know that time and time again He proves this scripture true. Being human, I doubt but the Lord always picks me up and shows me He is still with me and He is in control.

Standing in His peace,
Alycia

 

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The next several stories posts will be from different staff members as they explain what “Maintaining the Mission” has meant to them over the course of 2020’s forever changes. This week, read the take from ALYCIA GALLI, Executive Assistant.